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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Busla Busl 2VIII (Bós 2)

[2] hon mun sungin brátt ‘it will soon be sung’: Here ‘sing’ probably indicates an etymological root shared by the Old Norse word for ‘magic, magical song’ (galdr). Related are ON gala ‘sing, cry out, pronounce a magical incantation’, OE, OHG galan ‘sing’ (AEW: gala), which scholarship suggests hints at a magical song sung in falsetto voice (cf. Wesche 1940, 40-5; ARG I, 304-5).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
  3. ARG = Vries, Jan de. 1956-7. Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte. 2 vols. 2nd edn. Berlin: de Gruyter.
  4. Wesche, Heinrich. 1940. Der althochdeutsche Wortschatz im Gebiete des Zaubers und der Weissagung. Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache 1. Halle: Niemeyer.

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